A tricky start.

Victory! Is something that has eluded me this month :( I managed to get in two games with my 500pt army, against Tom's lizardmen and Glen's dwarves but lost on both occasions. Tom's army consisted mostly of skinks and a shaman, backed up by a stegadon. I tried to use the shadow warriors to distract the stegadon while my sword masters and archers dealt with the skinks but the skins poisoned weapons caught me out and with a mass of 6's killed all the shadow warriors. My archers managed to avoid being charged by the stegadon but lost the chance to shoot effectively in the process. I was counting on my sword masters to kill the skinks when I got close, but the slipery little buggers kept running out of my charge arch and shooting me with there pesky poison. All very frustrating and I lost.

Game two against glen was closer. My shadow warriors just failed to charge his organ gun from the start and were promptly cut down. The organ gun also managed to finish off the sword masters as they advance because the dwarves dispelled my shield of saphrie. My archers did eventually get revenge on the organ gun and my mage had a good go at trying to kill his thane with fury of khaine but in the end he won on points as the warriors who formed the bulk of his army were unharmed.

So not a great start for me but credit to the other guys they are both more experienced and played very well. Next time I'm planning to add a big block of seaguard as they go with the fluff I'm planning to do for the army (more on that later in my next blog) and some extra swordmasters to make the unit more survivable. Not sure how useful the shadow warriors are going to turn out to be but I'll just have to test them out more.